Rockstar Suzuki's Mat Mladin rode to his seventh AMA Superbike race win in a row at Barber Motorsports Park yesterday, adding to the victory he secured in Saturday's opening leg.
Despite lengthy delays in the racing program due to heavy rain and tornado warnings, an abbreviated, 16-lap AMA Superbike race was run at the end of the day and six-time AMA Superbike Champion Mladin picked up his 79th career AMA Superbike win.
"It's good to get seven AMA Superbike wins in a row. Now we'll go to Infineon and see if we can get another one. The Rockstar Makita Suzuki GSX-R1000 worked great today. We found some stuff out in morning warm-up and I had a completely different motorcycle in the afternoon," said the Aussie.
"I was able to run some lap times that were very similar to this morning, even with the wet conditions of the track and that's pretty good. I feel like we've made a lot of progress with the new 2009 bike this weekend."
Jordan Suzuki's Aaron Yates followed Mladin home in second place and picked up his best result of the season while Rockstar Makita Suzuki team mate Tommy Hayden struggled with the track's semi-wet conditions and finished up in eighth place, while third team rider Blake Young crashed early on and was unable to finish the race.
